Oral preparation



Patented Feb. 16, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ORAL PREPARATION Ferdinand W. Nitardy, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York No Drawing. Application September 8, 1934, Serial No. 743,182

2 Claims. (Cl. 167-93) order to contribute its own therapeutic properties to the preparation.

For example, an oral preparation comprising fifty parts of sodium perborate mixed with one part of magnesium hydroxide, and any desired flavor, is found to be stable, even under elevated 5 but they have hitherto suifered from the defect temperatures, for long periods of time. A suitthat the sodium perborate, even if partially dehyably larger proportion of magnesium hydroxide drated, tends, especially during summer heat, to would give rise to the further advantage of undergo liquefaction and caking, accompanied making the preparation antacid. by decomposition. It is to be understood that the foregoing ex- 10 It is the object of this invention to provide amples are merely illustrative and by no means preparations containing sodium perborate so limitative of the invention, which may be vastabilized as to eliminate or minimize this tendriously otherwise embodied within the scope of ency; the appended claims.

In the practice of this invention the stabiliza- I claim:

5 tion of preparations containing sodium perbo- 1. In an oral preparation, sodium perborate rate, whether crystalline, anhydrous, or partially and at least enough magnesium hydroxide to dehydrated, is eiiected by adding magnesium hystabilize the sodium perborate. droxide. A small proportion of the magnesium 2. Sodium perborate stabilized by means of hydroxide will suflice to accomplish this stabilizamagnesium hydroxide.

20 tion, but more of it may 01 course be employed in FERDINAND W. NITARDY. 

